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Certificate. It is a magnificent hybrid, large and of excellent shape, the 

 sepals and petals being light rosy lilac in colour, and the lip intense ruby 

 purple, margined with lilac, with the disc orange-coloured and some reddish 

 lines extending to the base. An Award of Merit was given to Cymbidium 

 X Lowio-grandiflorum, a very interesting hybrid of fairly intermediate 

 character. 



Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, gained a Silver Flora 

 Medal for a fine group, containing many varieties of Laelia X Mrs. M. 

 Gratrix and Laelio-cattleya X Charlesworthii, Odontoglossum cirrhosum, 

 O. crispum Etoile du Congo, O. c. Chestertoni, O. X loochristiense nobilior, 

 a yellow flower blotched with brown, having the ground work of the lip 

 white, Oncidium splendidum, Houlletia odoratissima and the yellow H. o. 

 xanthinum. An Award of Merit was given to Odontoglossum X Hallio- 

 crispum heatonense, a large and handsome flower, fairly intermediate in 

 character. The sepals were yellow, blotched with red-brown on the lower 

 part, the fringed petals similar in colour, and the large fringed lip pale 

 yellow with a few reddish spots. A similar award was given to C. X Lowio- 

 Mastersianum. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, showed the pure white 

 Dendrobium nobile virginale, and Cypripedium insigne X bellatulum, which 

 is evidently a form of Paphiopedilum X Helena, described at page 30. 



Messrs. D. Dowel, horticultural sundriesmen, Ravenscourt Avenue, 

 Hammersmith, showed an assortment of Orchid-pans, potting materials, &c. 



At the meeting held on February 25th there was an excptionally fine 

 display of Orchids. 



J. Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), staged a fine 

 group of well-grown and profusely flowered plants, to which a Silver Flora 

 Medal was given. It contained a beautiful series of Dendrobiums, con- 

 spicuous among them being fine specimens of D. aureum and the pale D. 

 nobile Gatton Park variety, Epiphronitis X Veitchii, some good Odonto- 

 glossum crispum and Laelia anceps, Masdevallia cucullata, Brassia Lanceana, 

 Phaius X Norman, Cattleya Trianae alba, a fine example of Phalaenopsis 

 Schilleriana bearing a strong spike, and a strong young plant on the old 

 spike of last year, and other good things. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), gained a 

 Silver Banksian Medal for a group of well-grown things, including the rare 

 Dendrobium Treacherianum, D. nobile burfordiense, the fine D. X xantho- 

 centrum pallens, Masdevallia elephanticeps, M. burfordiensis, M. X Bocking 

 hybrid, L&lia anceps Veitchiana, a well-bloomed Maxillaria arachnites, 

 Cypripedium X Berkeleyanum (bellatulum X Boxallii), a well-coloured 

 hybrid of intermediate character, and several other good things. 



